Before becoming an MP, Mr Shapps founded HowToCorp, a web marketing firm offering books on how to get “stinking ... be delighted to learn that it is Grant Shapps leading this alleged coup, ...

Grant Shapps had professed his pride in a “record of real results” in a constituency he has held since 2005. But the long-standing Conservative has lost his Welwyn Hatfield seat to Labour.

Amid speculation the change was prompted to avoid offending the French, former defence secretary Grant Shapps said: “Renaming the HMS Agincourt is nothing short of sacrilege. “This submarine ...